Oh, another thought: A 30' tower with a small tribander is a pretty trivial
installation, you may consider just putting it up and seeing what happens.
Around here you don't need to ask permission for anything that short. Even if
it was guyed at one level with "temporary" guys, it would only take a couple
hours with some buddies to throw it up.
Chris
---- Jim Lux <jimlux@earthlink.net> wrote ----
>On 1/16/15 9:15 AM, Big Don wrote:
>> Typical antenna survival ratings are way less - 402CD, 80mph -- 34XA,
>> 100mph. Even if the tower is good for 130mph, the real hazard could well be
>> the shrapnel from disintegrating antennas blowing around the neighborhood.
>> That stuff blows all over while towers fall generally in one piece close to
>> home. Apparently, the planning folks don't worry about that.
>>
>>
>One would not want to wander down to the counter at the city and ask
>this question<grin>
>
>I assume it gets handled as the tower is a "structure" and the antenna
>is something "on the structure". It's like an inflatable santa claus on
>your roof.
>
> From a safety standpoint, if *I* were a county engineer reviewing
>applications, and we had agreed that "stuff" should withstand *X* miles
>per hour, then I would ask that you list the antenna on your application.
>
>And if you said "I'm putting up a tower with a 2 meter vertical on top"
>and then later on you install a copy of W5UN's "mighty big array" to do
>some moonbounce, I think you'll get in trouble.
>
>
>There might be a "de minimus" exception for small things with low mass
>and hazard. (kind of like for free balloons.. FAA regs say that if it's
>smaller than a certain size and weight, you don't need to do some stuff)
>
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